MPC 1983 Shelby Charger with TII swap

[JasonC]

Finished this 1983 Dodge Shelby Charger a couple of days ago. Didn't turn out to bad for an old MPC kit! This kit did come with the 85-87 Turbo hood and 5 lug Pizza wheels. I swapped in a 2.2 TII out of a MPC 88 Daytona kit. Did a bunch of extra details on it. I made my own exhaust and used a muffler out of a Revell Tuner kit. Tires are parts box, FMIC is a 4th gen F body radiator cut down.  Interior I added flocking and a Pistol grip shifter. Painted it with Dupli-color Chrysler Dark Garnet Red Pearl with a Nissan Silver and topped with Dupli-color clear. The direction of this model is based off of a 86 that I had. Although I had Crab wheels on mine.

[galaxyg]

This is cool.

[Jim B]

Nice Charger.

[polybius]

Very nice!  These kits were finicky and you've done it justice! 

[Dragonhawk1066]

Well done! I've always liked those little cars!

[AMT68]

Great looking build. I remember these but have never seen a built scale model. 

[cobraman]

Looks very good.

[70 Sting]

Brings back a lot of memories from the 80’s. Nice build and thanks for the short trip back in time.?

Edited December 10, 2022 by 70 Sting

[larman]

That's really cool! You don't see them built much and yours is done extremely well!

[charger74]

It looks really good 

[fredo84]

32 minutes ago, larman said:

That's really cool! You don't see them built much and yours is done extremely well!

Has he said ! You don't see them finish quite often !! 

Pretty neat model !! Congrat' !

[ChrisR]

Looks great!

[espo]

Great looking paint work and interior. Your extra efforts on the drive train and exhaust look good. 

[Joe Handley]

I love it, nice touch with the pistol grip shifter too!

[PappyD340]

Looks great!

[Spottedlaurel]

I really like what you've done with this one, great work on the subtle upgrades and mod's.

By coincidence I have one sitting in my auction site watchlist, it's a bit of an oddball from the era I really like. Having seen yours I'm tempted to give it a go.

[slusher]

Great looking Charger!

[yellowsportwagon]

Real nice obscure build! Well done.

[Dominik]

not often you see that built. well done!

[drodg]

This is really nice.  I had a Charger 2.2 as a demo back in the days of my early car dealer experience.

[Bainford]

Cool! It's good to see one of these kit given a quality build. Neat period engine swap.